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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?
(a) For writing a book about literature.
(b) For writing a book about language.
(c) For suggesting that ethnic languages be left alone.
(d) For suggesting the restoration of the letter "yat" to the Russian language.

2. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?
(a) Committed genocide.
(b) Helped them become traders.
(c) Destroyed their culture.
(d) Helped them become farmers.

3. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?
(a) Four weeks.
(b) 60 days.
(c) One year.
(d) A month.

4. When did the official indoctrination into the Soviet dogma begin?
(a) Kindergarten.
(b) First grade.
(c) At age 10.
(d) At age 12.

5. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?
(a) Leningrad.
(b) Moscow.
(c) St. Petersburg.
(d) Irkutsk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?

2. What happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?

3. How did the Baltic republics win their independence?

4. Who betrayed Aleksandr Medvedev?

5. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?

(see the answer key)

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